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Arsenal fans love Mesut Ozil and have been fretting all season long about whether or not he’ll stay on at the Emirates Stadium as talks over a new contract drag on, but is he even as good as, say, Dele Alli?

While the two are slightly different players, it’s clear that Alli is often the more entertaining to watch with his more explosive style, though Gooners will insist the genius in Ozil’s play is in the subtlety of it.

Mesut Ozil has been slightly off-colour lately (Picture: Getty)

Well, you can only take subtlety so far, with the Germany international struggling to find the end-product to match his undoubted ability and quality, with just 20 Premier League goals since his £42million move to Arsenal from Real Madrid in 2013.

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Alli, by contrast, cost Spurs a mere £5million and has already managed more strikes than that (21) in almost half the number of top flight matches.

Premier League goals

Dele Alli (54 games)21Mesut Ozil (102 games)20

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We can almost hear the angry mob of Arsenal fans yelling: ‘What about assists?!’ – sorry, Gooners, but even your star player’s numbers in that area don’t boost his productivity rate in comparison to the White Hart Lane wonderkid.

Alli and Ozil are vital players for their respective clubs (Picture: Getty)

While Ozil averages a goal or assist every 1.79 league games, Alli is averaging a goal contrution every 1.59 games.

In Ozil’s defence, he doesn’t have the prolific Harry Kane to aim for up front, but his habit of completely disappearing in some games seems to be costing him in comparison to his young rival, who will surely only improve his superb rate of scoring and creating.

To rub salt into Arsenal wounds, Alli has also managed more goals in his last seven games (8) than Jack Wilshere has in his entire Premier League career (7).